Clyde's Comeback!

Stone Cliff/ DC loop. 80 F when I left the house at 6:30. August seems to be dragging... The run was pretty good for a Monday. I held a solid pace throughout. The garmin died .7 into the run and then just kept beeping for about 5 miles before totally kicking the bucket. I've got to charge that thing everyday.... Ugh! I wish I would have gotten something other than the 405. Live and learn homeboy. 

5.5 miles around the inner B-hills loop at 4:30. 100+ outside but seemed better than last time I did this in the afternoon. Got home and mowed the lawn and then was really burned and dehydrated. 

3.5 mile warm up

7 mile MP tempo @ 5:32 avg

2.5 mile cool down

Splits for the tempo went- 5:37, 5:33, 5:30, 5:41, 5:30, 5:31, 5:20

This course is honest if not challenging as it rolls and has some tough climbs. I was happy to see the second mile was a 5:33 because when we were going up that hill I thought I was moving like a snail.

Overall I'm happy with the results. Splits were actually a little fast for the couse. But the effort was pretty solid too... no relaxing. I feel I'm in a litte rutt of sorts. The legs seemed so much swifter about two weeks ago. Now I've got the heavy, choppy leg stuff... Hope to sharpen things up in the next month and feel the spunk again.

Stone Cliff loop with the fields side first. Temps were cooler (69F) at the start. I got out late just before 7... but it felt good all the way home and by then it was over 80 F. Legs felt pretty good with just a touch of drag left over from yesterdays tempo. I didn't get out twice yesterday so I'll have to make it happen today because tomorrow I'll only get in one run early before we go hike the Subway in Zion. Looking forward to that!

8 miles at 1 p.m. It was 104 F when I left and 105 F when I finished. I soaked the hat and took both hand held waters packed with ice water. That helped but by mile 4 the water was already luke warm. The legs were kind of in protest until about mile 6 and then I felt really good. 

Hiked the Subway in Zion NP today. Total distance is anywhere from 11-8 miles. We never got a straight answer from anyone in person or print. But I do know it took us 6 hours of just hiking time and a little over 7 hours to get back to the truck. That said this hike is freaking amazing. Plus we had to swim through slot canyons in (freezing) water over our heads, while trying to keep our backpacks from getting wet. Once in the water section we put our packs in a garbage bag and then tried to "float" them in front of us... all my stuff still got soaked. But Mik'L's sayed fairly dry. The water was paralyzingly cold and in the canyon we didn't get full sun until after 12:30 p.m. So I was pretty cold most of the time. The views were amazing and it was fun to repel down the cliff sections. It was really fun watching my little wifey do all this stuff. She was a trooper and made it through the day in an impressive fashion. 

Anyways by the time we got home (left town at 7 a.m back at 5 p.m) I was hungry and tired. I had a big dinner and decided I wasn't going to be able to run this evening because the food woud take at least 2-3 hours to digest before I was ready to run... 

Great Day!

Stone Cliff loop and a little more. I woke up with some sore legs and a very sore bum from yesterdays hike. At 5:30 a.m I decided I wasn't going to run today... then I laid there for a while and by 6:20 I was up getting ready to go out. Running was actually better than walking. I'm surprised how sore things got. I guess it's from all the steep down hill and from packing a backpack with about 40lbs in it. There was a very steep uphill section right at the very end of the hike but it only lasted about 25 min's. 

Met up at my house at 3:50 a.m (81F) with Dave, James and Logan. We ran a out and back into Warner Valley. 10 miles out at 7:46 avg pace and 10 miles back in 6:46 avg. Nothing too fancy. It was early, dark and hot. Glad to be done and showered before 7 a.m. The legs were pretty sore still from the hike on Thurs. Mainly the quads and hammys. Also when I went to be last night I weighed 160 lbs and when I got home from the run this morning I got on the scale and was 151 lbs. We all went out to eat last night for Dave's birthday and I had: The Santa Fe Burger with two hamburger patties (peperjack cheese, green chillies, spicy sauce), two rounds of steak fries, 3 rootbeer floats and one massive chocolate mudslide piece of pie. So I had to run with that in the system this morning too. Nobodys fault but mine...